Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

[Bewitched]

Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

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Morning All, Tabs I hope you are feeling better today. You have been really lucky with your pregnancy so far so I hope this isn't the sign of things to come for you!!

I am working from home today/ tomorrow. I have picked up a nasty chest infection so on antibiotics for that..

Other then that, all is well I think!

Cross posts Tabs!

I've forgotten Tabs - why do you need a GTT?

Jua - enjoy your scan.

Yeahbut - I feel like I've been at 22-24 weeks for several months now

Feeling like poo today - slightly queasy, but that is milk induced, but I alsp feel like I have someone shoving a javelin through one side of my back and out the front I think Spark must be laying on a nerve or something, but unless I sit hunched over to one side, the tiniest movement hurts so much I wanna throw up.

Think I'm gonna have to share a bath with DD and see if it will improve (a bath alone would be better, but ain't gonna happen )

aww no flame - that sounds like me last week when movement made me throw up...I hope the bath settles you a bit. If you stand with your legs open to the same width as your shoulders and rotate you pelvis in random directions for a few minutes...that is mean to help move the bubs into a better position....it might help!

Morning Ladies,

Tabs - Midwife called me back and said mumps shouldnt affect the baby but she wants to see me at 2.20pm today as I have been getting a sore dull ache in the top of my bump so she is going to check me over and make sure my little boy is ok. I am starting to feel a bit coldy so I hope I'm not going to come down with anything, my boss asked me if I had flu this morning!!

Talking of my boss, he is being overly nice at the moment. I was in a fowl mood first thing and he asked me if I didnt want to work here anymore as I've been very down. I told him I'm starting to find it a struggle coming in every day and I'm very tired, the situation with him selling up isnt helping either. My midwife appointment was originally at 3.30pm but they brought it forward and I wasnt going to go at first but he insisted, told me it was important and that he wants me well!! Blimey! he can be nice sometimes but he isnt up on this pregnancy stuff like some, he just expects you to get on with it.

TicTac, hope your chest infection clears soon, they make you feel very poorly at the best of times let alone when you are preggers!

FS or get on all 4s for 15 mins, encourages movement! good luck, I appear to have an arm or leg sticking out at an angle today!

Hotmama, 29 weeks I'm just 24!

JuA have a good scan

FS and Lillady, lol re the fridge, dd did nick some cheese I was grating from the worktop the other week, I turned around to do something, came back and just assumed in my preggers state I'd forgotten that I'd finished grating it all, it was only 5 mins later, when I went to get dd for her lunch, that I found her with the remains of a rather large block of cheese in her hand (and tummy) bless....

3k cross posts again!

Glad your off to see midwife, phew re mumps not a bother tho! and at your boss, although I'm kinda wondering why he's suddenly being nice?

I know Frizbe - I dont trust him! Perhaps he's trying to get me out of the way this afternoon for some reason. He knows I'm not happy here at the moment, I'm literally counting down the days til I leave!

I know what you are all saying about the pregnancy not feeling like it is moving, roll on 30 weeks!! We might feel a bit better then eh! And Christmas is coming - YAY!!!!!

Ooh - much more chatty today than yesterday!

Think my tummy pains are just an upset stomach, so should hopefully go away soon. Maybe I ate something dodgy which would explain this and the sickness yesterday. Can't think what though?!
Anyway, enough whinging from me!

TicTac - hope your chest infection clears up quickly. Think it's about now we must all be due to drop down with colds and flu too isn't it? I've had a bit of a sniffle for a couple of weeks, but thinking (hoping!) it won't develop any further than that.

Flame - I need GTT because there's masses of diabetes in my family (brother, nan, great-gran etc), and when you consider that along with my weight it puts me at a pretty high risk.

3k - good news about mumps. Maybe your boss just actually got out of bed on the right side today?!

I am 27 + 3 and feel like the pregnancy has slipped into a go slow. It might be because I have been counting down my days at work for ages...5 weeks on Friday...

As for the colds etc...I hope the chest infection is all I bloomin' well get! Everything hurts I have been coughing so much. I have never smoked in my life but sound like I must have been on at least 40 woodbines a day

Ahh, I remember now Tabs - ( you don't look particularly big in the photo either )

I had the bath, and Spark wriggled round! I can sit up straight again!!!!

morning all!

28+ weeks and first stretchmark [angry}, just at the side of my belly button...I am scared to explore under the bump tho in case i find more! Can't see from this angle and can't seem to get close enought to look in the mirror so, for now, ignorance is bliss

Tabs - i have continued to get nausea on and off the whole time - Chip might have had a growth spurt that has infringed on your digestion system a little more, trapping gas and leaving food in your stomach for ages...small snacks regularly are the answer!

JuA - the way baby teuch goes on, bouncing around, kicking, hiccupping and jittering I can't even begin to imagine having two! I wonder if they set each other off?

Teuch - I have 3 stretchies now!!!! They are horrible arent they! I have one real red one and two lighter ones but they are below my bump so I cant really see them unless I look in the mirror. I have been moisturising since day 1 too but they say if you are going to get them you will get them. I just hope I dont get one or more each week til due date!!!!

As far as I can tell, I just have the old stretch marks, but seeing as they didn't come until the day before DD was born, I still have plenty of time.

I do appear to be getting new ones on my inner thighs though - slightly odd considering I've lost weight there!!!

I'm too scared too look for stretchmarks! Have just got to the point where my tummy sticks out too much to see what I'm doing with my bikini line though, so I feel officially pregnant!
The woman who helps at playgroup said 'February? Are you eating alot then?'
Feeling a bit tired today; think I've got a cold coming (and ds; he was too tired at nap time to bother runnning back out of bed!). Also, my Dad is here, and he watched me cook, wash up, take the wheelie bin out, and make up his sofa bed with a very heavy futon mattress last night
Despite this, I'm actually feeling very happy and centred now! This pregnancy has gone so much faster than the last. I feel ripped off, as I love being pregnant, but this is def the last time!

Ixel - PMSL at the playgroup woman! When we went to the baby show some random woman asked my sister how she was finding her pregnancy, she must be about 5 months by now....anyway, sister wasn't happy as she is not pregnant! I nearly peed myself with her horror but then she got her own back another stall holder looked at me and said "my, we do have some very pregnant woman here today" I was only about 24 weeks

I hate it when people comment on the size of your bump, I've had lots of "oh my god, will you be able to carry until Feb?" and "blimey, I thought you were ready to drop" etc. It gets really annoying I think. I went to a wedding reception on Sat night and had lots of people patting my bump etc - GET OF I SAY!!!!!!

I'm loving this pregnancy (even with all my pain) - dunno if I want a third or not... I've told DH we'll see how I cope with 2 children first

I've got to the bikini line stage too - I never had a problem last time, through the whole pregnancy... maybe I was more bendy then!!! I'm getting to the point of just asking DH to shave the lot off, to make life easier

Oooh, long way off news, but news all the same... DH has agreed that we can find out how much it would cost for me to start an open uni course next September . No idea what I'd do... teaching seems the most sensible plan for the furture, so either something that will help me on my way to teaching, or just starting some sort of teaching course. In an ideal world I'd be doing a biology degree, and go into research, but that doesn't fit in very well with a young family, and earning money , so I might just go with teaching other children about biology instead.

With bump chat, you then get "are you sure theer's not two in there"

Yes - why do people do that!!! I think I'll tell them there are three in there next time!! JUA can easily say there are two in there eh!!

DH's bosses wife had a good old rub on Saturday night, I hardly know her.

Baby been kicking a lot today, he seems to be getting in a routine - 11pm awake, 4.30am awake and then I feel him at lot around 10am. It's great although last night he did some strange somersaults that felt very uncomfortable. I love it when he kicks though.

Amanda passes on her love, she says she can't bring herself to come on this thread personally (understandably).

Why can't hospital appts run on time??? I was there for a 10.30 appt and didn't get seen until after 11. Thank goodness dd wasn't with me - I didn't get home until after 12 she would have been starving. They are growing nicely and weigh almost 2lb each

FS - glad you can sit up again!

Tic Tac - hope you are not over doing it if you have a chest infection - you should probably be resting not working!

Hi guys.

Terrible day yesterday. We were supposed to be moving into our new house next week - but the vendor told me YESTERDAY that she probably won't be able to complete until after christmas! Apparently the survey on the property she was buying was so bad she dropped out, and is currently in the process of getting surveys on a second one.

DH and I are so angry, we are starting to look for another property so that we can tell her to shove her house on a busy road up her bum!
We're going to look at some nicer houses in a quieter area this week. But it does mean that we have to move out next week and move in with my (albeit lovely) in-laws for two months. And no broadband at their house And what about getting the nursery ready??!! Aaaaaaaargh!

Only positive was getting fitted for a maternity bra at M&S. Didn't realise that underwires can damage your milk ducts! Am much more comfy - have gone up two sizes all in all!!!!

Oh, and RE stretch marks - thought I'd developed some red stretchies on the underside of my arms, but it turned out to be creases from my cardigan!!

I was just chasing the Boots parenting club for my freebies and vouchers...who else gives decent freebies for us mums-to-be?

I think I sent off for my Bounty pack but that is it...

Jua...glad the twins are doing fine...blimey, 2lb each....good luck growing them until Jan/ Feb. I am working from home today and tomorrow but I have felt so poorly with this infection that I really have not done anything I have also told my boss I am not up for frequent travel, at most I can do 1 more trip before I finish.

Thell - PMSL re your cardigan marks!!!!